I am quite entranced by a piece in the previous UCO Reporter. Avis’ recipe for calla lily sandwiches reflects her childhood. Little girls pushing dolly carriages in the park while mommy made dainty sandwiches like flowers, I expect there were apple and cherry blossoms floating on the sunny breezes too.
I remember UK blackout curtains, gas mask, no meat, no chocolate, refugees, POWs, playing hide n’seek in the bomb craters was fun!
I had a younger friend raised in farmland of NY State, wild berries, fishing, swimming holes, idyllic – not good when they slammed him into Vietnam and Thailand.
How was your childhood?
Friday, May 2, 2008
How was your childhood?
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WHAT CHILDHOOD ?!
Do you mean you didn't have one or you cannot remember it? More detail, more detail pls.
Oh my Elaine, what a loaded question! I could go on for hours. You know what a run-on I can be about that stuff.
I'll have to regroup for a while and report back a little later.
chris
ps: if you want more details from Capt john, I think you're fighting a loosing battle. Can't wait to hear him speak at the blog party! I hope his sentences are longer in person than they are on our blog!
lol
And where's Mikey? That should be good...
either / or ...
The many trips to see The Trylon and Perisphere of the 1939Worlds Fair. The packing and shipping of my summer camp trunk via.....RAILWAY EXPRESS! The Dugans Bakery truck home delivery, home delivery of eggs,milk and butter, Ebingers Blackout cake and banking the coal furnace every night. Toscaninni and the NBC Symphony LIVE on a 9" Dumont B&W TV. My childhood was great. Len
I'm speaking at the MOJO PARTY - DUH!
I grew up in one of those little Cape Cod homes that was built in about 1950. Every house on the block had a mom and dad and a whole bunch of kids. I was part of the baby boomer generation.
All a kid had to do in my neighborhood was walk out their door and would find tons of kids to play hide and seek, red light-green light, kick-the-can, all that fun stuff.
We had no scheduled activities that our mothers would be taking us to like the kids do today.
Our jobs were simply to go to school, come home and do homework, go outside and play, come in and eat dinner and do the dishes, go back outside and play again until we would hear that familiar whistle from dad telling us it was time to come home. And home we went.
Very simple, very nice. I wish the kids of today could have that exactly!
chris
Capt, you really crack me up!
Len, your childhood sounded terrific! Good for you. Nothing better than those memories!
chris
What a great life where life was
more surrel and made up of more
Europian values given by Grandparents,and traditionally thru
my Dad and Mom. War was ending the
Men were returning, the labor force was gearing down to a Domestic posture, all families
reuniting to be complete and yes
many were incomplete! The troubles
of today we hear in seconds on
that picture tube, it makes all
the difference for the last 55 years. I would tell my children of
my youth, but unless you lived it
they can't comprehend it? The last
point I wish to make is this. We
basiclly had nothing but we had
everthing, today they have everything and basiclly have nothing,that also they can't understand because you have to live it!Familia is the core of our
being,for those who were bless to
be a part of one, let's always
count our Blessings!!!!!!!!
In memory of NICOLA, CLORINDA,
Richard, and All Others
I had a great childhood in growing up in St. Pete. Schools there were nice, had open air patio's in moving from class to class. Enlisted in the Navy at 17 ( took special classes to graduate ) Came out of the Navy and did nothing for about 6 months. When we (and my children) were small, we would head to the beaches on the week-ends. No Hotels, just beach. Breakfast on the beach with our coleman stoves. Gulf water was pristine and phosphorous would trail you in the water. At night, we would gig for flounder by walking the beaches. From St. Pete to Clearwater, nothing but Beaches. They talk about the Golden Years, but my memories are og growing up.
Oh what beautiful stories. I have tears in my eyes reading both Giacomo and Ken's stories. This is a wonderful post. I hope many more join in.
Giacomo, your words were so wonderful. They said it all. I agree with every single thing you wrote. Please come to the Blog party if you can so we can all meet you.
Ken, your story sounds like a little bit of heaven to me. I have a little bit of memory like that too. My family had enough of the cold weather and moved us down to Ft. Lauderdale when I was 17. What a different world Florda was back then. I had just graduated from high school, so I didn't go to school down here - but did take many night time courses at the school and I remember walking in and thru those open patios to go to the different classes. It was heaven.
We lived right near the beach. Everybody lived near the beach back then. There was barely nothing west of US One, well, maybe North Andrews Blvd.
We use to go to the beach every day. It was never crowded, the water was beautiful, very clean. I love the pictures of my mom and dad sitting on the sand with their bathing suits on, just enjoying being alive in Florida.
Your memories Ken are wonderful too!
Hope we see you to on Thursday.
Even though it's Elaine's post, I thank you all for such feel good memories!
To Chris J,
If we learned to be in the NOW, we would'nt have to wait for tommorrow to enjoy yesterday.
Hi Anon, I'm in the now, today and everyday. I feel good every single day. I mean that with all my heart.
Hope to see you to Anon at our party! All are welcome.
Enjoy this day!
chris
Yeah, come and be anonymous: WEAR A BAG OVER YOUR FACE !!!
It is a thread about CHILDHOOD MEMORIES - NOT, EXISTENTIAL NEW AGE PSYCHOBABBLE !!!
anon: STAY on SUBJECT !!! SIEG !!!
It's not Tolle, it's Krishnamurti.
AFLAC
The comments have begun to take on the familiar odor of CV Forum. People won't post if what appears is a poor imitation of Ned Sparks and Joe Negative.You ain't funny Seaman John. You are a sniper and contribute nothing.
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